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Shell repositories on GitHub: 28 ranked by stars
28 public repositories tagged Shell are on GitHub, with 347,338 stars between them; 14 had a push in the last 30 days. Most are written in Rust (11), Shell (4), Python (2). The most starred: tw93/Mole (69,870), tldr-pages/tldr (63,897), alebcay/awesome-shell (37,759).
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| Repository | What it is | Language | Stars | Forks | License | Last push | Read |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| tw93/Mole | Keep your Mac clean, light, and running like new. Fast open-source CLI, plus a native Mac app. | Shell | 69,870 | 2,478 | GPL-3.0 | Oct 11 | Oct 11 |
| tldr-pages/tldr | Collaborative cheatsheets for console commands . | Markdown | 63,897 | 5,457 | Oct 10 | Oct 11 | |
| alebcay/awesome-shell | A curated list of awesome command-line frameworks, toolkits, guides and gizmos. Inspired by awesome-php. | 37,759 | 2,566 | CC0-1.0 | Aug 28, 2025 | Oct 11 | |
| fish-shell/fish-shell | The user-friendly command line shell. | Rust | 34,286 | 2,381 | Oct 6 | Oct 11 | |
| ibraheemdev/modern-unix | A collection of modern/faster/saner alternatives to common unix commands. | 33,020 | 828 | Sep 10, 2024 | Oct 11 | ||
| denisidoro/navi | An interactive cheatsheet tool for the command-line | Rust | 17,753 | 576 | Apache-2.0 | Sep 20 | Oct 11 |
| pystardust/ani-cli | A cli tool to browse and play anime | Shell | 13,964 | 888 | GPL-3.0 | Oct 5 | Oct 11 |
| webpro/awesome-dotfiles | A curated list of dotfiles resources. | 10,895 | 370 | Jul 26 | Oct 11 | ||
| sigoden/aichat | All-in-one LLM CLI tool featuring Shell Assistant, Chat-REPL, RAG, AI Tools & Agents, with access to OpenAI, Claude, Gemini, Ollama, Groq, and more. | Rust | 10,491 | 748 | Apache-2.0 | Feb 23 | Oct 11 |
| xwmx/nb | CLI and local web plain text note‑taking, bookmarking, and archiving with linking, tagging, filtering, search, Git versioning & syncing, Pandoc conversion, + more, in a single… | Shell | 8,425 | 255 | AGPL-3.0 | Aug 26 | Oct 11 |
| tailcallhq/forgecode | AI enabled pair programmer for Claude, GPT, O Series, Grok, Deepseek, Gemini and 300+ models | Rust | 7,638 | 1,462 | Apache-2.0 | Oct 14 | Oct 14 |
| agent-infra/sandbox | All-in-One Sandbox for AI Agents that combines Browser, Shell, File, MCP and VSCode Server in a single Docker container. | Python | 6,158 | 556 | Apache-2.0 | Sep 14 | Oct 14 |
| x-cmd/x-cmd | Shell Superpowers for AI Agents. | Awk | 4,705 | 172 | Apache-2.0 | Oct 8 | Oct 11 |
| trinib/Linux-Bash-Commands | godmode: Ultimate list of Linux bash commands, cheatsheets and resources | 4,149 | 311 | MIT | Jan 7 | Oct 11 | |
| ekalinin/github-markdown-toc | Easy TOC creation for GitHub README.md | Shell | 3,303 | 2,672 | MIT | Oct 2 | Oct 11 |
| cdleon/awesome-terminals | Terminal Emulators | 3,024 | 186 | Sep 22 | Oct 11 | ||
| sheeki03/tirith | Terminal security for developers and AI agents. Intercepts homograph URLs, pipe-to-shell, ANSI injection, obfuscated payloads, data exfiltration, and malicious AI skills/configs… | Rust | 2,751 | 97 | AGPL-3.0 | Oct 10 | Oct 11 |
| reubeno/brush | bash/POSIX-compatible shell implemented in Rust | Rust | 2,252 | 129 | MIT | Oct 9 | Oct 11 |
| Chaoses-Ib/IbEverythingExt | EvEx: Everything 拼音搜索, ローマ字検索, wildcard, quick select, Shell extension | C++ | 1,923 | 97 | MIT | Aug 2 | Oct 11 |
| dominikwilkowski/cfonts | Sexy fonts for the console | Rust | 1,902 | 68 | GPL-3.0 | Oct 11 | Oct 11 |
| kimono-koans/httm | Interactive, file-level Time Machine-like tool for ZFS/btrfs/nilfs2 (and even Time Machine and Restic backups!) | Rust | 1,668 | 36 | MPL-2.0 | Sep 18 | Oct 11 |
| ngs-lang/ngs | Next Generation Shell (NGS) | C | 1,520 | 50 | GPL-3.0 | Oct 7 | Oct 11 |
| YiNNx/cmd-wrapped | A CLI Tool for Command Line Insights | Rust | 1,288 | 34 | MIT | Mar 22, 2025 | Oct 11 |
| sigoden/argc | A Bash CLI framework, also a Bash command runner. | Rust | 1,171 | 59 | Apache-2.0 | Oct 10 | Oct 11 |
| rust-shell-script/rust_cmd_lib | Common rust command-line macros and utilities, to write shell-script like tasks in a clean, natural and rusty way | Rust | 1,157 | 41 | Apache-2.0 | Sep 14 | Oct 11 |
| shenwei356/rush | A cross-platform command-line tool for executing jobs in parallel | Go | 1,134 | 69 | MIT | Sep 21 | Oct 11 |
| apify/mcpc | The most compatible MCP CLI client. Supports: tools, resources, prompts, completions, async tasks, skills, stdio and Streamable HTTP (MCP 2026-07-28 and 2025-11-25). Persistent… | TypeScript | 1,034 | 98 | Apache-2.0 | Oct 13 | Oct 14 |
| tumf/mcp-shell-server | Secure MCP server for whitelisted shell command execution with stdin, argv pipelines, timeouts, and structured audit logging. | Python | 201 | 51 | MIT | Oct 14 | Oct 14 |
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Read from GitHub by SpecStream between October 11, 2026 and October 14, 2026; each row shows the day its repository was read. Stars and pushes change every day, and the GitHub page is the current one. Forks and archived repositories are left out.